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TALES OF OLD TIMES
IN RHODE ISLAND




AN ANCIENT BOOK NOW REPUBLISHED
WITH SOME NEW ILLUSTRATIONS
AND ADDITIONAL NOTES

MARTHA C. WOOD

1903

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

GEO. RICE & SONS

COPYRIGHTED 1903

MARTHA C. WOOD



INDEX

Rhode Island Tales
A Visit in the Country
The Enquiry
Milking
The Pigs
The Wrens
The Visit Concluded
The Lost Child
The History of a Happy Cat
The Death of the Happy Cat
John's Question
Lydia and the Razor
The Little Girl to her Needle
Sarah M.—
Edward
Parched Corn
The Wigwam
Wampum
The Funeral
Indian Corn
The Baby
The Canoe
The Hunter
Cookery
The Warrior
Little Ellen
The Farm
My Grandmother
Twilight
The Indian and the Planter
The Accident
A Little Boy who broke his Arm
A Happy New Year
The Chimney Sweep
Poor Little Willy
The Widow of Zarephath
The Little Cousins
To My Infant Nephew
Professions
Summer
Winter
Hapless Henry
Hannah
The Apron Strings
Good Hearted Nancy
The Irish Child
The Idiot Boy
The Request
The Sailor and the Monkeys
The Indian and the Basket
The Stage
The Mill
Idle George
James Franklin's Printing Press
A Reminiscence
The Boat

NOTE BY THE PRESENT PUBLISHER

To preserve antiquity, and for the benefit of children of this generation, this little book of rhymes which has been long in obscurity, is now republished. The most of it was written, probably about seventy-five years ago, by Avis C. Howland of Newport, Rhode Island.

Though it may be one hundred years since some of the incidents occurred, yet they are known to be truth­ful and may be made more interesting to children by explaining to them how very different many things were in that long ago time, when the fastest travelling was by the stage coach; houses were lighted by tallow candles and many of the blessings that we enjoy had not been discovered or invented.

Some modern illustrations have been introduced to contrast with the ancient cuts of the old edition. M. C. W.



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